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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

USPA CA State Deadlift Competition - Training and Results

Here's video from my 8 weeks of training leading up to this past weekends USPA CA State Deadlift Competition. I performed a total of 11 working reps over 8 weeks (I think about 25-30 total reps if you include warm ups).

Strategy: I've taken over a year off from powerlifting training to start my personal training business, during that time I've been performing a lot of body weight, functional and plyometric movements, lost about 40 lbs of body weight (a mixture of fat and muscle), and performed minimal heavy resistance training. That said, there were several factors I took into account during this training cycle...

I'm extremely active all day long, so I needed to minimize soreness and excessive fatigue and maximize my time with my clients and to work on my business.

I haven't trained the heavy lifts in over a year, so I needed to slowly ease my way into training to avoid injury.

I didn't want to increase my body weight too much as staying lean has been good for business, so I kept volume to a minimum.

I have years of practice in the movement so volume and excessive reps (practicing) wasn't necessary for me.